Save the Date: Purim Shpiel
Thu, Mar 13
|Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
Gliklekh in Goles is delighted to be partnering with the Peretz Centre to co-produce a Purim shpiel like you've never experienced. Satire! Solidarity! Jew-cy queer critique and so much more...
Time & Location
Mar 13, 2025, 7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
Event Description
Gliklekh in Goles is delighted to be partnering with the Peretz Centre to co-produce a Purim shpiel like you've never experienced. Satire! Solidarity! Jew-cy queer critique and so much more...
As Yiddish researcher Miriam Borden explains, the Purim shpiel is a centuries-old tradition that makes up a rich part of the history of Jewish folk theatre, bringing together "parody, irony, social criticism, bawdy humour, and folklore." These "short comic plays" -- typically performed by non-professional actors -- are "a form of popular theatre that combines the elements of inversion and reversal that are intrinsically rooted in the holiday, with elements of carnival."
Save the date: Evening of Thursday, March 13!
Take Part in a Purim Folk Theatre Tradition! Auditions for the Purim Shpiel are taking place at the Peretz Centre on Sunday, February 3rd from 2-5pm. Learn more and sign up here.